Penny Vincenzi
1) No angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Language
English
Description
An irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-first in the Spoils of Time trilogy from the bestselling author.
Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way. She moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions that affect herself and others-her husband, Oliver, and their children; the destitute Sylvia Miller, whose life is transformed...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When the perfect couple's marriage is threatened by the appearance of a sultry fashion model, are there any right choices? In 1950s London, Tom Knelston is charismatic, charming, with a passion for politics and reform. He is a man with ambition--and someone to watch. His wife Alice, a former nurse, shares his ideals. It seems they are the perfect match. Then, out of the blue, Tom meets an old childhood acquaintance, the beautiful and unhappily married...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An inside view of the greed and social power plays behind the closed doors of upper-crust society, An Absolute Scandal looks at a world where money isn't everything . . . sometimes, it's the only thing. And when the money disappears in the thick of a financial crisis, the real story begins.For Nigel Cowper, this means the destruction of his family business; his wife, Lucinda, is willing to do everything she can to help him—except give...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A #1 bestseller from one of Britain’s most popular novelists. • An all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act. • "Nobody writes page-turning women's fiction like Vincenzi." —USA Today
Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their...
Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Octavia Fleming glitter among the chattering classes of London in the late 1990's. Tom, a brilliant political strategist, and Octavia, an equally talented charity consultant, appear to have it all-good looks, money, success, and three pretty children-everything but precious time together. When Octavia realizes that Tom is having an affair, she plots her revenge against her husband. But nothing prepares Octavia for the identity of Tom's mistress,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A widowed matriarch's well-to-do English family is rocked by her plan to remarry in this "page-turner" from the bestselling author of No Angel (Publishers Weekly).
Rescued from the slums as a baby by Celia Lytton and now living in New York, Barty Miller heads more than half of the Lyttons publishing house. But as they fall on bad times in the years after World War II, the family is worried that Barty will make a business decision that would be...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Cloe Windsor discovered that the truth could kill when her famous, rich and charming husband committed suicide. Fleur FitzPatrick found out that the truth could kill during the long and painful journey to avenge her father's death. Caroline Hunterton had always known of its destructive power, but her long buried past was a secret which could not be kept forever. From the Suffolk countryside in World War II to the decadence of post war Hollywood, from...
9) Windfall
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Language
English
Description
Sensible Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a huge fortune. For the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes, and she starts to question her marriage, her past, her present, and her future. But where did her inheritance really come from and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force, one that Cassia cannot resist.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Language
English
Description
The House of Farrell is a prolific skincare company and home of The Cream, an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to its flagship London store since 1953. At Farrell, you can rely on the personal touch that has been their trademark for generations. The legendary Athina Farrell remains the company's figurehead and in her kingdom at the Berkeley Arcade, while Florence Hamilton plies their cosmetics with the utmost care and discretion. She...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On an ordinary Friday afternoon, on a major motorway outside of London, a trailer truck suddenly and violently swerves across fives lanes of traffic--careening cars into one another like dominoes and leaving a trail of chaos and confusion. Within the space of a minute, an astounding miles-long pileup has amassed, and, as the survivors await help, their stories unfold.--From publisher description.
12) The dilemma
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The third wife of a charismatic businessman tells a complicated lie in order to safeguard her marriage and children, a decision she subsequently evaluates at the height of an emotional crisis.
13) Another woman
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families.
14) Wicked pleasures
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A saga set throughout the latter half of the 20th century traces a mega-wealthy family's efforts to orchestrate respective agendas from their Hamptons summer homes and English countryside manor, while a brother and two sisters discover that they all have different fathers.
15) Forbidden places
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Wartime is never easy, and Grace Bennett and her two friends are doing the best they can. Reveals the stories of one young woman who is widowed after only five years of marriage, a wife who rethinks her feelings after witnessing disturbing changes in her husband, and a woman who wonders if the war will free her from a brutal marriage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Something Dangerous is a riveting drama about an embattled dynasty, and a passionate, multi-layered tale of love and politics. The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the specter of Nazi Germany is growing…Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways―but it is not...
17) Old sins
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Julian Morell's monumental business empire is up for grabs as six powerful women--his mother Letitia; his first wife Eliza; his daughter Roz; Susan, an executive; Camilla, his long-time mistress; and Phaedria, his second wife--battle for control.